Coexistence and Interoperability Guide for SharePoint Products and Technologies

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As with any server product, Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies require certain settings or processes to run that may not be compatible with the needs of other server products you have installed. This article lists which Microsoft server products or technologies can be installed on the same server computer as Microsoft and Microsoft , and which server productscan interoperate with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies.

Note:
If you are running aWeb application such as a custom Microsoft ASP.NET application that gives employees access to online business data on the same virtual server that is running either or , you might need to configuresothat Web application can run correctly. For more information, see
Allowing Web Applications to Coexist with Windows SharePoint Services
.

Microsoft Products and Technologies That Can Coexist or Interoperate with Both and

The followingMicrosoft products can interoperate with or ,or coexist with or on the same server computer.Some of these products add functionality to SharePoint Products and Technologies. Some must be configured before they can coexist with SharePoint Products and Technologies.

Indexing Service and Index Server

Indexing Service (formerly known as Index Server) can coexist on the same server with or ; however, Indexing Service operates independently of SharePoint Products and Technologies. You cannot use Indexing Service to search for content on SharePoint sites. For information about searching through SharePoint site content, see
Managing and Customizing Search
in the Administrator's Guideor, in the
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Administrator's Guide
, in the "Administration" section, see the "Managing Search Settings" section.

BizTalk Server 2002 and 2004

Microsoft BizTalk Server has a BizTalk Adapter for Web Services that allows Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies to expose e-commerce functions over the Internet. The BizTalk Adapter for Web Services provides a set of functions (Web methods) that allow client systems, such as or , to gain access to server systems through Microsoft BizTalk Server 2002. For more information about using BizTalk Server, the BizTalk Adapter for Web Services, and SharePoint Products and Technologies, see the
BizTalk Adapter for Web Services
download on the Microsoft Download Center and the
Biz Talk Server home page
.

Live Communications Server 2003

Microsoft Live Communications Server can be installed on the same computer as or . Live Communications Server can provide online presence information (by way of instant messaging clients) to your SharePoint sites. For more information about online presence and SharePoint Products and Technologies, see
Configuring Online Presence Settings
in the Administrator's Guide.

You can use Windows Rights Management Services and Information Rights Management (IRM) 2003 to control permissions for documents when users open them in the Office 2003 client applications, such as Microsoft . Although SharePoint sites allow per-list permissions for document libraries and not per-document permissions, IRM per-document permissions apply when using the Office client applications. Users who view or control permissions for a document by using IRM must be authenticated by usinga Microsoft .NET Passport account or Windows Rights Management Services.

SQL Server 2000 and WMSDE

SharePoint Products and Technologies rely on Microsoft SQL Server 2000 for database support. Small installations of can also use Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (Windows) (WMSDE). SQL Server can run on the same computer as either or , or it can run on a separate database server that you configure to work with your front-end Web servers.

Note:
For server farm deployments, the component for backward-compatible document libraries cannot be installed on the same computer as SQL Server 2000.

For more information about the databases used with SharePoint Products and Technologies, see theAdministrator's Guideor theAdministrator's Guide.

Microsoft Products and Technologies That Coexist or Interoperate with

2003

Microsoft2003 relies on to provide collaboration features for , such as document libraries and issue-tracking and risk-tracking services. You install separately from , and then configure to work with . For more information, see the
Project Server 2003 Installation Guide
.

Exchange Server 2003

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and can coexist on the same server computer. They can even interoperate, with Exchange Server providing support for e-mailenabled document libraries in . However, you must perform a few specific configuration steps in to make sure that Exchange Server can handle its own HTTP and HTTPS requests, rather than having those requests intercepted by .